What is national identity in the wake of a climate apocalypse? Larissa Sansour on her contribution to the Danish Pavilion in Venice.
Critique and curiosity go hand in hand in Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s queer-feminist shake-up at Kunsthal Aarhus.
This year’s instalment of the alternative art fair Alt_Cph manifested itself as a performance festival offering a queered blast of fresh air on the Copenhagen art scene.
– Planetary thinking is feminist thinking, state the curators behind Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology as they publish a book about hydrofeminism.
Nairy Baghramian’s sculptural work at the National Gallery of Denmark is an eloquent image of institutional porosity in an age where the institutional is something performed.
– I don’t know if I really believe in public art as such, says Dan Graham, who is also not too fond of institutional critique, but loves astrology. His Copenhagen show opens tonight.
– It is important to insist on a non-Eurocentric, post-colonial and queer-feminist position, says Carla Zaccagnini, new professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
– Goethe was wrong in believing that certain colours produce specific emotions, says artist Henriette Heise, who has devised a new theory of colour.
Everything is written in algae dust in Astrid Myntekær’s densely referential installation where myths and science contribute to a meditation on the world’s reduced lung capacity.
Bonniers Konsthall develops Peter Weiss’s novel The Aesthetics of Resistance into an exhibition, but its core theme – class struggle – is conspicuously absent.
Kirsten Ortwed has spent a lifetime pushing sculpture to the edge. On the Danish isle of Bornholm, her art fits in almost suspiciously well.
Bonner Kunstverein show plays with split vision.
Three exhibitions – by turns glossy, quiet, and flashy – fit Copenhagen’s event-packed month like a glove.
